Claude Opus 4.5: Anthropic's Most Powerful AI Model Yet

    Anthropic has just released Claude Opus 4.5, and it’s a game-changer for software engineers, enterprises, and anyone working with AI-powered tools. Released on November 24, 2025, this model sets new benchmarks in software engineering, agentic capabilities, and enterprise-grade performance. If you’re building software, analyzing complex systems, or working with autonomous agents, Claude Opus 4.5 deserves your attention. Here’s everything you need to know. What Makes Claude Opus 4.5 Special? Claude Opus 4.5 isn’t just an incremental update-it represents a significant leap in AI capabilities, particularly for technical and complex tasks. ...

    November 26, 2025 · 10 min · Rafiul Alam

    Fast Food Learning: Why I Stopped Reading Documentation and Started Building

    I’ve spent exactly zero hours reading React documentation cover-to-cover. Zero hours on comprehensive Next.js courses. Zero hours memorizing Python’s standard library. Yet I’ve built multiple production applications, trained LLM models, and ran an EdTech startup that served thousands of students. How? Fast Food Learning. And before you judge me, hear me out. This isn’t about cutting corners. It’s about recognizing that in 2025, the way we learn needs to match the speed at which we need to build. ...

    November 21, 2025 · 9 min · Rafiul Alam

    Sauce Series Module 1: Asia - 9 Essential Sauces from Japan to Bangladesh

    Sauce Series Current: Module 1: Asia Introduction All Posts Module 2: Europe ...

    November 20, 2025 · 14 min · Rafiul Alam

    Modernist Textures & Plating: The Science of Visual Sauces

    Traditional sauce-making prioritizes taste and texture on the tongue. Modernist cuisine adds a third dimension: visual presentation. Using hydrocolloids-long-chain molecules that manipulate water-chefs create sauces that defy expectations: foams that float, gels that flow, spheres that burst. This isn’t molecular gastronomy as gimmick; it’s precise control over how diners experience flavor through sight, texture, and timing. Understanding Hydrocolloids: The Texture Toolbox Hydrocolloids are water-binding molecules extracted from plants, algae, or bacteria. Each creates specific textures based on how they organize water molecules. ...

    November 19, 2025 · 10 min · Rafiul Alam

    Sauce Series: A Weird Fascination with the Only Thing I Like to Cook

    Sauce Series Current: Introduction Previous All Posts Module 1: Asia I have a weird fascination with sauces. ...

    November 17, 2025 · 4 min · Rafiul Alam

    The 7 Best Productivity Frameworks Ranked by Effectiveness (With Implementation Guide)

    After years of testing every productivity system imaginable-from complex analog systems to cutting-edge digital tools-I’ve identified the frameworks that actually move the needle. This isn’t theory; it’s battle-tested advice from someone who’s juggled multiple startups, LLM training projects, and a constant stream of side ventures. Let me save you years of trial and error by ranking the most effective productivity frameworks and showing you exactly how to implement them. 1. Getting Things Done (GTD) - The Foundation Layer Effectiveness Rating: 9.5/10 ...

    November 16, 2025 · 14 min · Rafiul Alam

    The Future of AI Agents: Why Go is the Perfect Language for the Agent Era

    The future of software development isn’t just about AI-it’s about AI agents: autonomous systems that can reason, plan, and execute complex tasks with minimal human intervention. And as we stand on the precipice of this transformation, one programming language is uniquely positioned to dominate the agent era: Go. In this deep dive, we’ll explore why AI agents represent the next evolutionary leap in software, examine the technical requirements for building robust agent systems, and demonstrate why Go’s design philosophy makes it the ideal foundation for this new paradigm. ...

    November 14, 2025 · 14 min · Rafiul Alam

    Sauce Series Module 4: Africa & Middle East - 4 Essential Sauces from Mozambique to Mali

    Sauce Series Current: Module 4: Africa & Middle East Module 3: Americas All Posts Module 5: Modern Fusion Africa and the Middle East don’t separate sauces from food. ...

    November 7, 2025 · 12 min · Rafiul Alam

    The Pastry Kitchen: Mastering Sugar Crystallization and Custard Coagulation

    The pastry kitchen operates under different physics than the savory line. Where savory cooking manipulates fats and proteins, pastry masters two molecular transformations: sugar crystallization and egg coagulation. Understanding these reactions transforms dessert sauces from mysterious to predictable, from temperamental to controllable. Caramel Physics: The Difference Between Wet and Dry Methods Caramel is pure chemistry-sucrose molecules breaking apart under heat, recombining into hundreds of new compounds that create color, bitterness, and complexity. ...

    November 3, 2025 · 11 min · Rafiul Alam

    How I Write Blog Posts: The AI-Assisted Writing Process

    Writing has always been about ideas, clarity, and connection. But the process of getting those ideas from your mind onto the page-especially when English isn’t your first language-can be challenging. Over the past year, I’ve developed a writing process that combines human creativity with AI assistance, and it’s fundamentally changed how I create content. This isn’t about AI writing for me. It’s about AI helping me write better, faster, and more clearly. Let me show you how. ...

    November 1, 2025 · 8 min · Rafiul Alam